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Comment by Lawladin

When Blessing a Character, you will now automatically buff the appropriate rank for the target's level, as of 2.0. Blessing of Might can be improved through the Retribution talent tree with Improved Blessing of Might, an ideal talent for a PvE/Raid Spec, but also viable in PvP as melee classes enjoy this bonus to attack power.

Comment by Willas9

As of patch 2.01, this rank can be trained at any paladin trainer. Previously, it was only trainable by acquiring the book from AQ20.

Comment by frmorrison

Gives 262 attack power with the 5/5 Ret talent.

Now in 3.0, this gives 381 attack power with the 2/2 Ret talent.

Comment by super80sgeek

The duration is actually 5 minutes, not 10.

Comment by helmers

You would need 1310 strength to get the same AP increase from Blessing of Kings as from the improved one. BoK will also give other benefits that may make it a better choice.

Comment by breath

They have updated it cause in 2.2 (and now on the PTR) the duration will be 10 mins for the normal blessing and 30 mins for the greater.

But yes now on Live Realms the duration is 5 mins.

Comment by DrakeLord

The Live Realms just updated. The blessings now have a 10 min length instead of 5.

Comment by lainirl

Actually after doing the math (not rounding up), if you have 5 in Divine Strength you would only need 1191 strength for BoK to equal BoM (in strength).

Comment by pallyshammy

Great blessing throughout the game. Give it to warriors, rogues, hunters, and pets and they'll be thankful for it. Good for soloing too when you really want to take mobs down fast.

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Comment by rumanchu

As of tonight (1-5-09), this is most definitely not fixed -- at least not for Greater Blessing of Might. Started the run with GBoM on the rogue and hunters, then found that they were both buffless after the warrior Shouted.

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Comment by DreadlordSanta

I'm not sure if anyone would actuallyfind this useful, but being bored at work, I decided to figure out how Blessing of Kings with 5/5 Divine Strength would measure up to a talented Blessing of Might. Rather unsurprisingly, you need a massive amount of base strength for raw AP gain from the combined 21% boost from Kings and Divine Strength to surpass Might - 1637 is apparently the magic number. Naturally, this doesn't count any +crit you'd gain from agility, so all in all, I didn't figure out much, but it at least cemented in my mind that Might is a better Blessing in general for levelling, I guess. Pretty pointless, but w/e, it's not I'm actually wasting time on it here at work ^_^

Comment by Xebenatros

This is something I've been wanting to ask, Blessing Of Might increases your AP, while Blessing Of Kings increases all stats by 10% now. My question is this, what is Blessing Of Might good for in the end and isn't Blessing Of Kings good for any situation? I think Blessing Of Might helps greatly when running instances or raids while Blessing Of Kings could help other party members. Can someone give me some advise, please and thank you.

Comment by Ninmecu

It depends, if their a tank then BoK>BoM, if their a spell caster its really up to them wether Wisdom or King's works best. Melee classes go with BoM all the way.

Comment by owff

Can anyone have Greater Blessing of Might and Blessing of Might together if there is 2 paladins?

Comment by DarthVaston

BoK and BoM comparison...

Blessing of Might (Rank 10) gives you 550 AP, with the Retribution Talent Improved Blessing of Might(Rank 2) it gives you 687.5 AP

Strength: as we have various talents that multiply it's effect. 1 STR gives you 2 AP baseline, multiplied by 1.15 from Divine Strength (Tier 1 Prot) giving us 2.3 AP per STR when specced.

so... we can say that... 687.5 AP = 299 STR

Blessing of Kings increases your total stats by 10%

We need 2990 STR to gain a 299 STR bonus from BoK to equal the 687.5 AP bonus from BoM...

Its difficult to reach this values with BoK, however, BoK not only gives you STR bonus... it gives you STM, AGI (crit + dodge + armor) and INT...

In my opinion, BoM is better for leveling, and doing raids... but in case of pvp, at lvl 80 with good gear, i would choose BoK =D

sorry for my bad english...

Comment by Jenine

This has been fixed.

Comment by knarel

as a tank i think i'd want this more then kings because this would make you do more damage which equals a lil more threat and with DKs it means your diseases do more damage

Comment by JayTrain

No. You can never have enough stam.

Comment by Xebenatros

Thanks guys, this has helped alot!

Comment by Ronark

In Cataclysm, this spell also restores a static amount of Mana per 5 seconds, as well as granting an additional percentage of Attack Power.

Comment by Yewb

If you're a group PvE retridin, you want this over Kings 99% of the time. You need some obscene gear before Kings grants you better DPS.If you're levelling as ret, Might all the way.If you're PvP or a protadin, you will want Kings most of the time (or Sanct if you're prot).If you're holy, obviously Kings.

Buffing other classes? Kings is usually preferable for most classes. Casters will tell you if they prefer Wisdom - they usually don't at endgame if they have half-decent gear - and you should only be giving Might to certain melee DPS: DPS death knights, rogues, feral DPS druids, Enh shamans and other DPS paladins (though with other pallies you'll have two blessings, so it's not really important).

Edit: DPS warriors tend to want Kings over Might, because Blessing of Might is equivalent to the warrior's Battle Shout, and they DON'T stack.

Long story short: Most melee DPS want Might, everyone else wants Kings. If you're unsure, ask. As a paladin, this is the unique aspect you bring to the group, so don't go giving Wisdom to a warrior!

Comment by anhility

1 hour blessings in Cataclysm? Thank you Blizz!

Comment by audiogarden21

Also take note of the fact that there is no reagent requirement anywhere in the tooltip. I'm glad to see that, dunno 'bout you fellas.

Comment by Neptuno

concerned why the minor glyph for this in cata still say "increased duration by 20 minutes" since it's an hour now. is that accurate on PTR?

Comment by forgetthesword

Yes, and also, it's now party/raid-wide. Now you only have to cast it ONCE. I'm liking this already.

Comment by Weimann

That glyph has now been changed to reduce the mana cost by 50%.

Comment by Jessicat

Goodbye PallyPower, we won't miss you.

Comment by Ottius

Wonder, since it's a party/raid wide buff, what you gonna do if some of your party members don't need BoM, but would rather like BoK.

Comment by duraz0rz

BoK and Mark of the Wild are going to be the same buff. 5% stats and magic resist.

If you have a party of casters, then more likely they'll want Kings for more Int and Spirit, whereas melee DPS will want Might still.

Of course, if you have a druid in your party, then you just need to cast BoM and be done with it :)

Comment by Daler

@duraz0rz

If you have a party of casters, then more likely they'll want Kings for more Int and Spirit, whereas melee DPS will want Might still.

Kings and Mark of the Wild don't affect spirit anymore. Spirit is considered a secondary stat, like combat ratings. The buffs only increase primary stats (a.k.a., strength, stamina, intellect, and agility).

Comment by Garner

Now that this ability last an hour even on people outside your party it makes an effective buff for PvP flagged NPCs such as Guards in Wintergrasp.

Comment by Aqhat

If you're grouped with a MM hunter and aren't heavy on casters, you're going to want to go with Kings instead as BoM will overwrite Trueshot Aura.

Comment by shadowaninja

It's come a long way from the 1 target at a time, 5 min duration buff that it was originally.

Comment by sirknala

The actual buff received by raid/party members is .

Comment by nexxius2

Just curious but would this one be a better choice for my leveling / questing holy paladin then kings?I figure kings give more hp/mana/spellpower and some crit i guess while this one makes my melee stronger and for solo questing i don't have a mana problem.

Note: Buffs and debuffs provided by pets, profession perks, items and any other NPC are left out on purpose.

Comment by Yakeshi

Random lowbie: "Can I get a blessing please?"

85 Paladin: "Sure." *casts Blessing of Kings*

Random lowbie: "..."

Random 85 druid *casts Mark of the Wild on lowbie*

Random lowbie: "... caaaan i get another blessing...?"

85 Paladin: "wont let me"

Random lowbie *facepalm*

-_-

Comment by elstohn

apparently you cant cast this on lowbies anymore. even though its a lvl 56 ability you cant cast it on anyone below at least lvl 68. not sure what the min lvl is, but lowbie buffs are a thing of the past it seems.

Comment by xXzCodProxXz

nerfed....even what it doesn't require reagents anymore, its got a steep lvl of EIGHTY ONE...lol, you used to unlock in your mid 10s or 20s if I remember